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Oh, great. Wow. [inaudible] good, glad to hear that. You take responsibility. And this one . [inaudible] right. Now the governments not paying for these, are they . No. Well, i dont know, just thought id ask. Thank you very much. Thank you so much. Good to meet you. Thanks. Hey, how are you . Is is this for . Thats for john. John . Yes. I always ask the simpist names because if i dont, its Something Else like smith, youd think; right . Yeah. How do you get money out of politics unless you take the power or reduce the power from the federal government . Well, i think, you know, youre never going to get it out. The point is to bring it to some kind of control. I mean, look, look at the amount of the last election, all the expenses, the primary conventions, the 7 billion now, come on, and you got really good people who dont want to run for office for all sorts of reason, they had a bad date in high school, she finds you and turns you into a stalker or something. We need good people. We ne
All can say is, the more i look into this the more i worry about the problems that are involved. Are a other hand, there lot of good people in this industry who are trying to do and who do do what is right. I want to look at this very carefully. I dont want another big bureaucratic institution to make it even more expensive to file tax returns. For tax certain feeling person as well. Your helping us to understand this better. Hopefully you will continue to weigh in and give us your ideas on how we might do a better job here. Thanks so much. On the next washington journal, democratic and republican strategists join us for look ahead to the midterm elections and the 2016 president ial race. We will also examine the latest developments in ukraine with former u. S. Ambassador to nato, kurt volker. Our guest is kelly lonnie. Today on newsmakers, we are latte. By bob good he will talk about changing the nsa Surveillance Program and oversight of the Justice Department. Newsmakers is at 10 00
Live at 2 30 p. M. Here on cspan. Edison was a plant scientist as well as interested in other sciences. He knew that it did not freeze in fort myers. A lot of the interest that he had here in this area was aced on his love of plants. 1920s, the United States was relying on foreign rubber. We were heading into war. The decided that the plant material and the process should be done in this country. They were traveling all over the world and collecting plants. They had hundreds of people all over this country collecting plant. They were sending it back here to fort myers, to his laboratory, to find the source of plant materials that could produce robert efficiently. Laboratory was put here because of that reason. They could grow the plants onsite and in duty preliminary research on site. It was an exciting process. The laboratory was interesting because at that line in American History, there was no patent chemicals. Plants or part of the reason why this lab was so important was that it c
American historians, is that right . Gas . And when he goes on tour with Thomas Jefferson to promote the bill of rights the constitutional amendments as well as becoming more acquainted with the country as he charmingly put it the to famously Founding Fathers didnt get along very well. They visited Newport Rhode island as you know. This sounds to me like, it sounded to myself like the kind of cross between a stuffy professor and keith richards. [laughter] they go to Newport Rhode island in the blazing august of 1790 and famously they have a wonderful visit and a letter has been written to them by the leader of the tourists center. Its really a beautiful place if you have never been there and it has inside this extraordinary made of deer skin which sounds very american but theres this extraordinarily beautiful rubicon tawny color. It probably was from ever on a family from some identified place after the explosion in 1492. Washington goes and has written this charming letter in which th